JP Floru is a City of Westminster Councillor and Prospective European Parliamentary Candidate for London 2009.
On 7 August Russia invaded Georgia. Within 5 days it looked as if the whole country would be overrun. Sarkozy, holder of the six month rotating presidency of the EU, brokered a peace deal. In Le Figaro he boasted how the EU rose to the occasion. His success “showed how much the EU could do with enough political will”.
President Saakashvili of Georgia had no option but to sign the deal. But it quickly transpired that emperor Sarkozy had no clothes – the peace deal did not guarantee the territorial integrity of Georgia and allowed Russia to keep “peace keeping troops” in the country.
Today Russia continues to occupy Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and other chunks of Georgia. Georgia gets 200 civilian observers and humanitarian help (including 35,000 bandages) from the EU. The EU gets Sarkozy’s promise of “Peace in our Time”.
Most people in the world probably don’t care much about Georgia. It’s far away. It’s unknown. It has no oil. But Georgia shows us something else. This is what EU foreign policy would look like: heaps of verbose diplomacy and no solutions.
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